Handlebar risers.

Started with the standard flaking black paint risers.

Took all the paint off with paint stripper and polished with the abrasive wheel in previous blog post. Currently my favorite abrasive thing is the flapped wheel made from alternate emery cloth and skotchbrite pad.

Now all cleaned up, a couple of coats of primer and few more coats of silver paint.
Bought 8 stainless allen screws off ebay to finish it off.

The top yoke gets the same treatment which looks good with the contrasting black light cluster set in it.

Front forks.

I dismantled one side and started to clean the aluminium ready for painting,
but then I remembered I bought a set of polishing mops a while back but never used them.

I had a spare 240v motor and decided to make a spindle adaptor to hold the mops.
Also make a bracket from dexion to screww it to the bench.
After a few hours of cleaning, using wet and dry then the polishing mops, I like the idea of the polished aluminium and have read about some wax polishes to keep it looking good.
Bit of a u-turn from a previous blog, lured by the shiny aluminium.

The Haynes manual said to get a bolt lock 2 nuts on it and tape it to a suitably sized 1/2" drive socket. I cut out the middle men and filed the inside of an M12 nut to 3/8" square drive so it fits straight on the extension drive.

Gear change link.

The original part was functionally okay but the chrome has been worn off on one side.

I could buy a new one,but it'll be still be chrome plated mild steel.
Time for me to use my engineering skills and make a new one from stainless steel.
1 piece of 8mm diameter stainless, original is 7mm, close enough.
Turned the end to 6mm on me lathe and bought a Left hand thread 6mm die from ebay.

20 minutes later a left hand thread and a new nut again stainless and from ebay.

Chopped to the correct length, turned and threaded with right hand thread m6 die. Job done.

Finally with both ends threaded with corresponding nut secured and attached to the two ball joints.-